[infrastructure] What platform is OSfA built on?

[Terri Molini]

I am a 'simple' marketing person that has stepped into the world of 
coding, editing, etc and I haven't had an issue with editing the content 
or the site. In fact, I have been using the database and management 
tools extensively and absolutely find them easy to learn and use.

-terri



Ean Schuessler wrote:
> A clearer statement would be that we are running OFBiz under Apache 
> Tomcat. Drupal is a fine content management system but I think its CRM 
> capabilities are weaker than OFBiz. Managing member relationships is a 
> critical function.
>
> If you would like to run Drupal in the same context we could 
> accomodate you with Caucho Resin. I don't think managing content with 
> the current system has been problematic, so If I'm going to take time 
> to set that up I would like commitments on what will be built with it. 
> Terri or Melanie, have you found editing content to be a problem?
>
> ----- "Greg DeKoenigsberg" wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Elizabeth Ziph wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I agree.  
> The CMS is OFBIZ -- Open For Business http://ofbiz.apache.org/ I don't 
> know whether it's even useful to start this discussion, as the ship 
> might already have sailed for good, and if this is an academic 
> discussion, forgive me... ...but I wonder ofbiz might be too heavy for 
> the org's purposes. Here's the thing. An application stack like ofbiz 
> is not just a CMS; it's a whole business platform with full CRM/ERP 
> implementation. It's a great platform for a business that has those 
> kinds of needs, and can pay staff to build a robust application that 
> can run a business -- but OSfA isn't a business. It's an advocacy 
> project that will rely almost entirely on volunteer labor to 
> accomplish its goals. In the years I've come to rely on volunteer geek 
> labor, I've found two rules to be paramount: Rule #1. Create the 
> lowest possible barriers to entry for participation. Rule #2. Know thy 
> contributor base. Open Source for America has an *outstanding* 
> opportunity to draw volunteer support from the rank and file of open 
> source developers -- but infrastructure choices matter. I personally 
> know literally dozens of people who have played with Drupal. Until 
> today, I'd never even heard of ofbiz. Now, that may be a function of 
> the geeks I hang out with -- but the geeks I hang out with are the 
> geeks who volunteer to do stuff, and I think it's a pretty 
> representative sample. So, again, this ship may have sailed, and I can 
> respect that -- but as it stands, Ean is carrying an awfully heavy 
> load, and there's no one I see with the expertise to backfill him. 
> Acquia is *the* Drupal company right now, and Drupal is *the* 
> mass-market CMS leader, and you've got someone from Acquia on your 
> infrastructure team. It may be worth reconsidering some core 
> infrastructure choices. It can be painful to change gears, but if 
> you're going to do it, better to do it sooner than later. My $0.02. 
> --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. 
> Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org.
>
> -- 
> Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com
> ean at brainfood.com - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> infrastructure mailing list
> infrastructure at opensourceforamerica.org
> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
>   

-- 
Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Global Communications, Open Source
OpenSolaris Community, Core Contributor
OpenOffice.org Community member
+1 (408) 404-4976 office
+1 (408) 406-9021 mobile
AIM: tmolini

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
-Woodrow Wilson

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://opensourceforamerica.org/archives/infrastructure/attachments/20090915/8ae6dd21/attachment.htm>